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In 2018, there was an estimated 8,638 Kayapo people, [1] which is an increase from 7,096 in 2003. [9] Subgroups of the Kayapo include the Xikrin, Gorotire, Mekranoti, and Metyktire. Their villages typically consist of a dozen huts. A centrally located hut serves as a meeting place for village men to discuss community issues. [10]
The Kayapó Indigenous Territory has an area of 32,840 square kilometres (12,680 sq mi). It is inhabited by the Kayapó people. As of 1990 Funai reported that the population was 1,946. In 2014 Siasi/Sesai reported that the population was 4,548. [1]
Paiakan was hired by the Brazilian government in 1971 to facilitate the construction of the Trans-Amazonian highway system through Kayapo lands. [1] Once Paiakan saw the nature of the project first hand, he quit his job and began to mobilize his people against the project. [1]
Brazil's Belo Monte Dam ultimately opened in 2016. Paulinho Paiakan, who died Wednesday, was chief of the Kayapó people. Brazil Indigenous Leader, Fighter For Rainforest Dies Of COVID-19
The Xingu are an indigenous people of Brazil living near the Xingu River. They are the Aweti, Kalapalo, Kamaiurá, Kayapó, Kuikuro, Matipu, Mehinako, Nahukuá, Suyá, Trumai, Wauja and the Yawalapiti peoples. They have many cultural similarities despite their different ethnicity and language groups.
Members of the Kayapó indigenous tribe have lifted a blockade of a key grains export road on the fifth day of protest after the state government of Pará agreed to talk and hear their demands ...
Raoni Metuktire (born in 1932), also known as Chief Raoni or Ropni, [1] is an Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist.He is a chief of the Kayapo people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon River and along Xingu River and its tributaries.
The Munduruku and Kayapo people, along with tribes from the Xingu reservation said in a letter to the Transport Ministry that the work group was not doing its job of discussing the 1,000-km (620 ...